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From: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb benchmark
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On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 09:31:06AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> That said, I think the /usr/bin/env trick is stupid too. It may be more 
> portable for various Linux distributions, but if you want _true_ 
> portability, you use /bin/sh, and you do something like
> 
> 	#!/bin/sh
> 	exec perl perlscript.pl "$@"
		if 0;

You don't really want Perl to get itself into an exec loop.

-- 

Ryan Anderson
  sometimes Pug Majere